On 2005-05-26, Bluebee wrote:
I have a samall garden where I have eggplants. I have it fenced by a
bird-netting fencing. The net is firmly stapled to the ground. I noticed
that something was eating my eggplants and sweet pepper plants at the
rate of two per day(even with the net around). I thought it was the
birdy doing it, so I covered it from above with a bird netting. Still I
found my plants eaten. I found a hole at one end of the netting(could
have been there before), so reinforced it. Still someone ate the plants.

One day hubby saw a tiny-rabbit getting in the garden and destroying a
plant and leave!

Someone told us that if we sprayed Habernero peppers water, rabbit will
not bother the plants. But even after spraying peppers water, I have
missing plants!! The rabbit is essentially breaking the plant in two halves!

How do I prevent any further casualties? I have already lost about
12plants!!

I have never had rabbits eat eggplants, but they do like beans and peas.
So I use 1 inch mesh chicken wire two feet tall to protect them. I
stake out the 4 corners. I secure the wire to one stake and run around
all 4 pulling it as taut as possible. Then I zigzag additonal stakes to
tighten up the wire and make sure it comes in contact with the ground in
all places. There is a 2 inche mesh chicken wire but young rabbits
would easily go thru it so make sure you buy the stiffer 1 inch mesh.

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